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Ugh, I hate PGP so much. It's keeping people from interacting securely for over two decades The UI is bad, integration is hard, the chain of trust (it never was a web) is broken, the CLI tools are annoying... but hey let's do crypto parties with other nerds and exchange passports.

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What do you mean the UI is bad? Which one? https://www.openpgp.org/software/

Sounds to me like you used a specific piece of PGP software you didn't like or understand.

How can you folks care so much about your privacy, but absolutely refuse to understand the tools you are provided that ensure your privacy? You're never going to get it if you demand it be provided in a blackbox app you don't have to think about.

ProtonMail uses the PGP standard. Its UI is simple and easy. There's still one issue: You're trusting someone else to do your encryption for you.

I started with PGP in the Nineties, under DOS. Back then it made sense. Though, it certainly was not for everybody. And despite all the crypto parties and what not, it's still not mainstream.

And yes it's great that some tools manage to hide PGP, it's not easy to do.

The problem, maybe it's not us, maybe it's PGP?

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